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Religious Excitement in Ancient Anatolia: Cult and Devotional Forms for Solar and Lunar Gods

by: Moga, I.

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Category: Colloquia Antiqua: Monograph Supplement of the Journal Ancient West & East
Code: 25638
ISBN-13: 9789042937291 / 978-90-429-3729-1
ISBN-10: 9042937297 / 90-429-3729-7
Publisher: Peeters
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Place: Leuven
Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: New
Comments: Colloquia Antiqua, 23

This book provides a detailed insight into the typology, characteristics and conceptual and iconographic elements of the solar and lunar divinities of Asia Minor. It has a special focus on native or indigenised cults. Furthermore, Anatolian divinities are studied not only in the Roman, but also during the incipient phases of these cults. The main topics include issues of polymorphism, polyonymy and the specific cultural adaptations of the Anatolian deities, the world of the gods, that of mortals and the relations between dedicators and divinities. The first part studies the origin of the name and of the divinity, an attempt to determine the area of dessemination, epithets, attributes, identifications with other gods, myths and the associated divinities, as well as symbolism and iconographical elements. The second part features the economic life of the temples, the organisation of the sacred space, the nature of the priesthood and the categories of dedicators, association patterns, age and kinship, and the alterations that occurred during this period in the perception of the divine world both in the Anatolian area and throughout the Roman empire. In the last part of the volume the reader can find useful information regarding the typology of inscriptions used by the author and the means of communication between the divine world and the terrestrial one.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Series Editor?s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Foreword – Silviu Sanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Framework, Typology, Themes and Research Directions 1
Geopolitical and Ethno-demographic Circumstances . . 7
PART I: THE WORLD OF GODS
Chapter 1: The Universal Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Hypsistos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Mithra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Mên . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Chapter 2: The Solar and Lunar Rider-Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Hosios kai Dikaios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Lairbenos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
The Dioscuri and the Pisidian Goddess . . . . . . . . . . 88
Sandan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Sozon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Chapter 3: Lunar and/or Solar Goddesses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anaitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Mâ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Artemis Pergaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
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PART II: THE WORLD OF DEDICATORS.
ORGANISATION OF THE SACRED PLACE
Chapter 4: Sanctuaries and Temples......................... 131
Types of Sanctuaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Income, Estates, Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Chapter 5: Priests and Dedicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Temple Personnel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
The Dedicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
PART III: THE WORLD OF DIVINE IN CHANGE
Chapter 6: Categories of Inscriptions regarding the Solar and Lunar
Cults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Dedications and Ex-votos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Funerary Inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Confession Inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Consecrations (Katagraphai) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Honorific Inscriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Chapter 7: Means of Communication. Characteristics of the Divine
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
The Master Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
The Relatives of Gods: Sons, Mothers and Companions 190
God?s Receptiveness: Redemption and Fulfilment of
Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Commands, Visions, Epiphanies, Oracles . . . . . . . . 193
Angels, Gods, Demons: Divine Hierarchies . . . . . . 200
Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Catalogue
1. Hypsistos and the Assimilated Deities . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
2. Mithra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
3. Hosios kai Dikaios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
4. Mên . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
5. Anaitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434
6. Mâ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
7. Artemis Pergaia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
table of contents VII
8. Lairbenos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487
9. Sandan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 548
10. The Dioscuri and the Pisidian Goddess . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
11. Sozon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563
Literary Testimonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Concordance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609
Epigraphic Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 679

 
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Religious Excitement in Ancient Anatolia: Cult and Devotional Forms for Solar and Lunar Gods

by: Moga, I.

  • ISBN-13: 9789042937291 / 978-90-429-3729-1
  • ISBN-03: 9042937297 / 90-429-3729-7
  • Peeters, Leuven, 2019

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